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Originally Posted by Hitch
BTW--I know a lot of people who read casually and may only read a book a month, or even less. Sorry, but to me, reader and "serious reader" are not the same thing. You guys want to argue that it's tautological, great, but if you only know voracious readers, I'm happy for you. I know a good number of people that read very sparingly. I wouldn't call them "non-readers," but nor do they go through hundreds of books/annum.
I wasn't judging the "goodness" of a reader by their volume--but the VOLUME, vis-a-vis print versus eBooks. I find that people who read a LOT, in terms of books/annum, tend to have eBook readers. (Or they haunt the library, take your pick.) People who want to read 20 books on vacation tend to have ebook readers. It's a practical matter. You guys want to assume that I was judging someone, in terms of "serious," fine.
But I was really talking about how people fall into eBook readers, especially early adopters--it was usually desperation, in terms of storage space. I know it was for me. I'd bought a house, literally twice the square footage of my prior house, because I'd been overrun with books, and still didn't have enough wall space for my paperbacks and hardcovers (I think I lost count around 2600 books or so, just in fiction, not counting non-fiction volumes here)--and thus, ended up with a Kindle. I've heard that story any number of times from other people--without the new house part, of course. I can't bring myself to part with books, so electronic devices were my salvation.
(FWIW, I know an "author" that doesn't read--at all. Yeah, knocked me for a loop the first time he told me that, too. Of course, his books suck. Nonetheless, he exists. I've mentioned him here in other contexts, previously.)
Hitch
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Much like I don't consider someone who cooks very sparingly "a cook," I don't consider someone who reads very sparingly "a reader." Different strokes. And no, I don't think you were consciously judging anybody, but I thought I'd share that to some, that sort of language CAN come across judgmental. The fact that this conversion is not remotely an isolated incident on these forums is proof of that, I think.
And regardless of all that, I still question whether the assumption that "most
readers-who-read-hundreds-of-ebooks-per-year" have dedicated eink devices is actually still true (or if it was true for any "serious" length of time). *shrug*